#stands

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#average #average person #between #capacity #devote

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#art #authentic #bad #beside #between

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#each #i #nearly #pretty #sings

He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... ' ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#because #beer #clear #contest #gonna

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#anyone #book #books #ceremony #contains

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#around #deal #feel #going #i

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#dead #government #man #politician #statesman

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. ↗

— Eugene Wigner

#long #nature #old #physical #physicist

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#end #gives #hair #hear #stands

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#border #each #fixed #fought #gangs